antipsychotic
noun
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Definition of antipsychotic
: any of the powerful tranquilizers (such as the phenothiazines and butyrophenones) used especially to treat psychosis and believed to act by blocking dopamine nervous receptors
— called also neuroleptic
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Maybe your friend started taking an antipsychotic that changed their life. — Kasandra Brabaw, SELF, "7 Myths You Might Believe About Antipsychotic Medications," 7 Dec. 2018 Twenty days later, Mathew stopped regularly taking clozapine, an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia. — oregonlive.com, "Kicked to the curb: How the state failed fragile mentally ill Oregonians," 22 June 2019 Research shows that antipsychotics may make conception more difficult. — Korin Miller, SELF, "What to Know About Getting Pregnant If You Take Antipsychotics," 17 Jan. 2019 But researchers are still looking into how other antipsychotics might impact pregnancy. — Korin Miller, SELF, "What to Know About Getting Pregnant If You Take Antipsychotics," 17 Jan. 2019 The new study was the first in-depth examination of using the antipsychotics on delirious hospital patients, said E. Wesley Ely, a professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who was one of the study鈥檚 authors. — Melanie Evans, WSJ, "No Benefit Seen From Antipsychotics Used in Delirious Hospital Patients," 22 Oct. 2018 Another class of medications prescribed for bipolar disorder is antipsychotics to treat mania (during which psychotic episodes can occur), according to the NIMH. — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, "14 Facts About Bipolar Disorder That Everyone Should Know," 27 Sep. 2018 The medications include antipsychotics, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs and others. — Anna Gorman, Washington Post, "Use Of Psychiatric Drugs Soars In California Jails," 8 May 2018 Seroquel was then known to be associated with sudden cardiac death when used with certain drugs, and several antipsychotics similar to Seroquel also had a record of cardiac fatalities. — Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, "Hidden conflicts? Pharma payments to FDA advisers after drug approvals spark ethical concerns," 5 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'antipsychotic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for antipsychotic
antipsychotic
adjective
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Medical Definition of antipsychotic
(Entry 1 of 2)
: of, being, or involving the use of an antipsychotic
antipsychotic drugs
antipsychotic
nounMedical Definition of antipsychotic (Entry 2 of 2)
: any of the powerful tranquilizers (as the phenothiazines or butyrophenones) used especially to treat psychosis and believed to act by blocking dopamine nervous receptors
— called also neuroleptic